n6 FRANS HALS SECT. 400rf. Small Portrait of a Woman. Mentioned in Oud Holland, vi. (1888), p. 44. In the possession of the painter Aart Schouman, The Hague, 1765. 400^. Portrait of a Woman. Artistic and individual. Sale. (Supplementary) Amsterdam, June 4, 1766, No. 91. 400*:. A Woman seated in a Chair. Very well executed. 40^ inches by 34 inches. Sale. Jan Palthe, Leyden, March 20, 1770, No. 78 (20 florins 50). 400^. Portrait of a Girl. In profile. [See 329.] Sale. Herman Aarentz of Deventer, Amsterdam, April n, 1770, No. 18 (20 florins, with No. 17 = 329). 400,?. Portrait of a Woman. Half-length. [Pendant to 329^.] Canvas, 13 inches by 12 inches. Sale. F. I. de Dufresne, Amsterdam, August 22, 1770, No. 318. 400/1 An Old Woman wearing Spectacles. True to life. Panel. Sale. A. B , Leyden, October 30, 1770, No. 102 (2 florins 12). 4-OOg. Portrait of a Woman. In a black dress with a collar. Masterly in treatment. Sale. Jan Matthias Cok, Amsterdam, December 16, 1771, No. 91. 400/1. Head of a Girl. In profile. Loose and powerful in style. Circular panel, 12 inches in diameter. Sale. Amsterdam, January 20, 1772, No. 63 (9 florins, Yver). 401. Portrait of a Woman. [Pendant to 330^.] Canvas, 25 inches by i8 inches. Sale. L. de Moni, Leyden, April 13, 1772, No. 25 (15 florins 10, with pendant, Yver). 402. Portrait of a Woman holding her Gloves. [Pendant to 33 2 -] Canvas, 30! inches by 25 inches. This was probably the original of the following drawing made after F. Hals by J. G. Waldorp in 1780 : Portrait Of a Woman. Half-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her right hand grasps her left, of which only the forefinger and thumb are visible ; in her hands are her gloves. She wears a cap, a ruff, and a black dress. Dated 1643 ; in black chalk on parchment, 12 inches by 10 inches. Sales. Carl Schoeffer, Amsterdam, May 30, 1893, No. 457. Alfred Boreel and others, Amsterdam, June 15, 1908, No. 653 (bought for the Amsterdam Print Room). In the Amsterdam Print Room. The picture was in the sale : the widow Merkman, born J. van Leeu- waarden, Haarlem, September 21, 1773, No. 6.
